but do you feel that joe biden, as the vice president, as the right of first refusal, as it were, within the party, or is it an open competition if you decide to run? >> well, american politics is always an open competition, but i have no, you know, no position on any of this, i have no opinion about it. i'm still secretary of state. i can't really engaged in politics, and for the foreseeable future, i don't think that i will be at all political, because there's just so much else i need to do. i need to determine my fill an fl tlopic activities, i'm going to write and speak. >> two pacs already engaged. >> i just learned that. >> supporters of president obama helped retire your campaign debt and left you, in fact, with a quarter million surplus. is that another thank you? does that signal how close you have come, despite the past campaign? >> i think the president said it very well, i mean, we've not only been great partners and colleagues, but friends. i am so grateful for that, because it's been an extraordinary experience working with him, being in his cabinet, thinking through a lot